I hear you, and I do believe this administration has bungled the entire Puerto Rico recovery effort to an almost absurd degree. They clearly don’t give a single fuck about the island’s people or their well-being, and their indifference is clearly rooted in the deep-seated and obvious racism of Trump and his team.

Huh. It’s almost as if one of them has 3,515 square miles of land area and 3.4 million residents to reconnect, while the other has 133 square miles of land and 102,000 residents. But I’m sure those numbers wouldn’t affect the speed of repairs at all, so we can safely ignore them.

Unelected. They should be drawn by an unelected commission of election experts, selected via a bipartisan process with rules in place to prevent exploitation of the process, a la the California Citizens’ Redistricting Comission. Like judges, making the positions electrd only opens them to abuse and capture by whatever…

Cannabis is the actual name of the plant, dude. “Marijuana” started out as a slang term, and was actively promoted by the U.S. government as a way to associate weed with dirty, scary Mexicans. There is nothing wrong with moving away from that legacy toward a world where people call Cannabis by its real name.

still a better love story than Twilight

I understand that, but from what I’ve heard (and now personally experienced), this is in danger of becoming a nationwide trend. I probably won’t be visiting Disney World’s resorts any time soon, but it is REALLY gonna suck if lots of hotels start doing this in the name of security.

I didn’t realize that the offer was made before the drawing. If he’d refused to accept a concession after the drawing had already declared him the winner, that would seem to indicate that he prefers a runoff to taking the seat by lot. But it’s different if the offer was made before the drawing took place.

This is unbelievably dumb. You know why I typically put the do not disturb sign on the door? Because I am fucking sleeping, and I do not want the hotel staff to awaken me with an aggressive knock on the door. My girlfriend and I go to a lot of music events that run into the wee hours, which often means that we don’t…

Wait, what? By refusing her offer to concede, isn’t he opening the door for further legal challenges by Simonds and a possible runoff or something down the road? I’m struggling to see how that makes him an asshole, since such a move can only be a good thing for his opponent.

So, nothing that “promotes the overthrow of the United States government” or “promotes resentment toward a race or class of people”... and yet, something tells me these people would be fucking thrilled to see more classes that teach kids about the noble struggle of the Confederate states against northern tyranny and…

I’m pretty sure OP is full of shit. As I recall, there was a thread here recently where people were discussing the merciful lack of sexual misconduct rumors involving Oliver.

Aren’t Orange County voters mostly supporting him because they knew he’d cut their taxes? I’m sure coastal money-Republican types repeat the same talking points from Fox News, but ultimately, I think their reasons for voting for him were quite different. Most of them probably don’t care all that much about the social…

Hillary didn’t fucking invade Libya. Obama did, if you can call airstrikes an “invasion”, and he did so with the support of the UN Security Council.

But how can you be sure that the 911 operator will honor that request? Isnt it basically up to their discretion which services get dispatched for any given situation?

Yeah, you’re right. We badly need a new Constitution to prevent a civil war or military coup, but there’s very little chance that we’ll get one without one or both of those things happening. It’s a terrible catch-22. Ultimately, we may discover that we are too big and too disparate, in population, ideology and…

How did you get access to advance copies of Trump’s upcoming speeches?

The anonymous neighbor, who stated they had personally “never had a problem with Nazis,” also called the cops.

Yeah, you’re right... to a point. I used to work in news, and I brought up the fact that news stations do “human interest stories” for exactly this reason—to inject a bit of hope and light into their broadcasts. But she seemed to be saying that human interest stories should make up most of the running time; that “hard…

Yeah, I would increase the term in the House to 4 years; maybe 5. I’d also allow the President to dissolve Congress and call a snap election, much like figurehead Presidents and monarchs in other countries. Keep in mind that in such a system, the President would (at least in theory) be a nonpartisan official. If we…

I keep wondering when the accusations against him are going to come out. When I saw his face on the front page just now, before I read the headline, my first thought was “It’s his turn, right?” But I dunno. To be throwing himself into the fray like this, he must either be super confident that he’s got no skeletons in…